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Wo es
war, soll ich werden. Champaign, IL: The Finial Press,
2004. Unpaged [196 pp.]
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Wo es war, soll ich werden
Wo es war, soll ich werden. Champaign, IL: The Finial Press, 2004. Unpaged [196 pp.] Cover title: WO ES WAR, SOLL ICH WERDEN
Half-title: Wo es war, soll ich werden: the restored original text
Colophon: Of 100 copies, on Frankfurt paper, using Spectrum types modified by Bob Chapdu, from plates prepared by David Eisenman and Mark Deininger to the design of A. Doyle Moore; on Vandercook SP20 proofing press, folded and sewn by Patricia Plaut and others, bound in boards by Christopher Hohn and Tedra K. Ashley-W. of Lincoln Bookbindery, this is number [sixty-seven]
Signed: Guy Davenport
See the following entries about previously-published texts of Wo es war :
A 'Circumspectus' pamphlet (6 pp.) by Guy Davenport, limited to 100 copies, accompanies the book.
"This little comedy, originally published in a different text in The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers (North Point Press, 1990) and again in The Death of Picasso (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2003), has been restored for this printing to its manuscript state by Mr. David Eisenman. When it was in proofs at North Point, the author saw ways of tightening its structure and removed some sixty pages. Such editing after a text has been set in type was common practice in the nineteenth century. For Balzac and Proust a printer's proofs (set from handwritten copy) were the equivalent of present-day typescript or computer disc.
It is the author's opinion that the version in The Drummer and The Death of Picasso is superior, aesthetically and dramatically, to this restored version. Mr. Eisenman, however, feels that the author discarded scenes and information that a few readers might appreciate seeing. Hence this limited edition." (opening paragraphs of the Circumspectus)
Additionally, a tri-fold 'Cadenza' to Wo es war, soll ich werden is included with book and circumspectus: "This third in a series of Finial Press Secret Editions, unauthorized by and unknown to their authors, is a cadenza to Wo Es War, Soll Ich Werden [sic], the restored original text. Extracted from a letter by the author, dated 04 AUG 2004, it is not for sale."
From URL < http://www.guydavenport.com/ > :
THE FINIAL PRESS, Champaign, IL / Proprietor: A. Doyle Moore announce a hand-made edition limited to 100 copies of a book by Guy Davenport, signed by the author:
WO ES WAR, SOLL ICH WERDEN, the restored original text.
This text is 35% longer than the version previously released.
196 pages, bound in boards, on Frankfurt paper, modified Spectrum type.Contact David Eisenman, < [email protected] > for additional information.
Note: The German pronouns Es and Ich are not capitalized in the title of this text in its initial publication in The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers (1990), nor in its republication in The Death of Picasso (2003) although the table of contents of the later book does list the title with 'Ich' capitalized. Such orthographical variance has led to confusion which may have been compounded by the capitalized nouns in Freud's Das Ich und das Es (1923) which book served as the basis for much of the lecture, "The Dissection of the Psychical Personality" (lecture 31) included in his New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933).
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